Boyfriends, Boyfriends, Boyfriends

Book: The Secret Language of Girls
Author: Frances O'Roark Dowell
Pages: 219-247

Boyfriends aren't always good when you are little. After Kate and Andrew spent a lot of time together, people started to think they were together, as a couple. One day, Andrew called Kate to talk about that and told her that he thought it wasn't bad that what people were saying would be true. Kate said that she wasn't bad with that and they really became a couple. Everyone in school knew about their romance but Kate didn't really felt comfortable with that. She started to avoid Andrew because she didn't wanted other people to watch them being together and worse, watch them holding hands. Andrew notice that and called Kate to see what was wrong. Kate told her that she didn't felt comfortable about it and they broke up. The next day, Kate wanted to avoid Andrew as much as she could but when she got to school, she went to talk with him right away. She wasn't going to avoid him her whole life so she decided to deal with it that day. Andrew was playing basketball with some friends so Kate went running to them and started playing two on two. When the bell rang, Andrew told Kate that he thought she didn't wanted to do more things with him and Kate explained him everything. She told him that she wanted to do things with him but just as friends because she's not good at holding hands and that stuff. Andrew took that really well and both stayed as friends. 

The last day of school, Mazie, Marilyn's friend, wanted to humiliate someone and she picked Kate. They were going to ask Robbie, one of the most handsome boys in school, to write her a note asking her to go out with him to the movies and Marilyn wasn't going to accept that but she didn't had other option, she didn't wanted to loose her friends. Marilyn putted the letter in Kate's mailbox and Petey, her brother, found out the plan and got the letter so that Kate didn't get it. Before school, she told Kate's mom to tell her that everything was a joke. When Kate got to school, Marilyn told her if she got the message from her mom but she was really confused because she never got the letter. Robbie went to her and asked her what was her answer but Kate was really confused about everything. Robbie finally aced her if she wanted to go out with him to the movies and she said no, even though she didn't knew it was a joke, she humiliated Robbie. That day, everyone signed her school book but this time was different, everyone told Kate that she was cute and wanted to know her more. When she got to home, she want to call Marilyn to thank her but Marilyn called first and demonstrated that her friendship would never end. 

"…Kate had no interest in romance, she never cared what other people thought. Now, it appeared, love was turning her into a rotter human being." Love is something beautiful, she shouldn't feel like that. She shouldn't let society change her because love would never do that. You always need to be yourself, no matter what. It's true that rotten human beings are the ones who care and always listen to what others say. The truth is that, it doesn't matter what others think because if you love yourself, everyone else will. The only person you need to satisfy is yourself. 

"Love is more complicated than people think." As we grow, we start noticing that relationships need to be balanced, you need to give some time to yourself and some time to your partner but always in a balanced way. Love is the most strong feeling a human can feel, therefore we need to be very careful with it. It can begin in a second but it can also end in another. Love is fragile and when little girls start having boyfriends at a young age, love defrauds them. It's not good for little girls to have boyfriends because that only ends with the friendship both had. Love is a part important of our lives and we need to take care of it.

People change all the time but the things that always stay the same are the love for people we know, even though we think they don't love us back. Little girls are not ready to have boyfriends, love is complicated and we need to make reflection about it. The secret language of girls is complicated but we always need to concuss about we do and our actions. Friendship is forever, believe it or not, family and friends are the most important people on our lives and we always need to take care of them. To conclude, people who are important to us always stay by our side and give us advice of everything we need.